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English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 31

This king finding that she was the King of Colchester's daughter, ordered some chariots to be got ready, that he might pay the king, his father-in-law, a visit.

Who acts: king, third · What happens: find, be, order, get, pay · To what, where: King, chariots, law

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, third), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

detnsubjaclmarknsubjcopdetobjcasenmod:posscasenmodpunctdetobjmarkaux:passccompxcomppunctmarknsubjauxconjdetobjpunctnmod:possnsubjpunctcasepunctnmodpunctdetconjpunctrootThisDETkingNOUNfindingVERBthatSCONJshePRONwasAUXtheDETKingPROPNofADPColchesterPROPN'sPARTdaughterNOUN,PUNCTorderedVERBsomeDETchariotsNOUNtoPARTbeAUXgotVERBreadyADJ,PUNCTthatSCONJhePRONmightAUXpayVERBtheDETkingNOUN,PUNCThisPRONfatherNOUN-PUNCTinADP-PUNCTlawNOUN,PUNCTaDETvisitNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing14 orderednsubj
3findingfindVERBVerbForm=Ger2 kingacl
4thatthatSCONJ_8 Kingmark
5sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 Kingnsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 Kingcop
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Kingdet
8KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing3 findingobj
9ofofADP_12 daughtercase
10ColchesterColchesterPROPNNumber=Sing12 daughternmod:poss
11's'sPART_10 Colchestercase
12daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing8 Kingnmod
13,,PUNCT_2 kingpunct
14orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15somesomeDETPronType=Ind16 chariotsdet
16chariotschariotNOUNNumber=Plur14 orderedobj
17totoPART_19 gotmark
18bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf19 gotaux:pass
19gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 orderedccomp
20readyreadyADJDegree=Pos19 gotxcomp
21,,PUNCT_25 paypunct
22thatthatSCONJ_25 paymark
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 paynsubj
24mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin25 payaux
25paypayVERBVerbForm=Inf19 gotconj
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 kingdet
27kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing25 payobj
28,,PUNCT_34 lawpunct
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 fathernmod:poss
30fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing34 lawnsubj
31--PUNCT_34 lawpunct
32ininADP_34 lawcase
33--PUNCT_32 inpunct
34lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing27 kingnmod
35,,PUNCT_37 visitpunct
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 visitdet
37visitvisitNOUNNumber=Sing27 kingconj
38..PUNCT_14 orderedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findgerundthis king not said herevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2is apastthirdthe Kingof Colchester's daughtertree rules
3orderpastthis kingsome chariotsvn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent chariot=Recipient clause=Topic
4get not said to happento-infinitive · passivethis king not said hereready propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»
5paymightkingthe king and a visitlawvn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Asset

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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